July 2009
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Golf
I don’t get golf. From an outsider’s perspective I’ve always been of the “good walk ruined” mindset. How is it that one could enjoy something that involved aiming at targets so far away you can’t even see them? Today, for the first time, I got an explanation that actually made sense to me. I asked one of my coworkers if he golfed, and what it was he enjoyed...
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Simple
I like simple answers. They’re very Dao. I think we sometimes forget that the simple things are most often the most correct ones. We have an intellect and a gift of language, which I think are part of what leads us to overcomplicate our surroundings. We are surrounded by things we do not comprehend, things which mystify us, and acceptance of the simple seems somehow to have been bred out of...
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100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About |... →
Remembering someone’s phone number. Not knowing who was calling you on the phone. Actually going down to a Blockbuster store to rent a movie.
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Periodic Table of Awesome →
Of course bacon has an awesome number of 1.
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10 Strangest Bars - Oddee.com →
Red Sea Star Bar: world’s first underwater bar, restaurant and observatory
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CMYK prints - pointilism →
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15 Weirdest Etsy Finds →
I could sure use this ouija board lunchbox!
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auroradude →
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17 Bizarre and Wacky Kitchen Gadgets →
I have no need for this egg separator, but I want one just to gross people out with it.
And this corn kernel cutter just looks painful.
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Now That's Nifty: 16 Cool Table Lamps →
I so want this one!
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fold — greeting cards →
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Chernobyl Journal →
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Incredible Shadow Art Created From Junk →
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Outdoor Living →
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Voynich Manuscript →
The Voynich Manuscript is considered to be ‘The Most Mysterious Manuscript in the World’. To this day this medieval artifact resists all efforts at translation.
It is either an ingenious hoax or an unbreakable cipher.
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Boogeyman Monsters Under the Bed Rug →
I want one. I really do. (I also want their light table.)
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Stupidiotic Portable Pizza Oven →
The last time I saw something like this (a USB Easy Bake Oven, I believe) it turned out to be an April Fool’s joke - much to my sadness.
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Bizarre and unusual destinations around the world →
The Wave, Arizona Just one of the fabulous destinatins detailed on this LA Times site.
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Tart Cards →
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Which words make you wince? →
” … the key to words that make you feel nauseous is not the meaning - it’s easy, after all, to hate the word ‘torture’ – but something else entirely. Something idiosyncratic, something about the way the word feels in your mouth as you say it. The horrors of ‘membrane’, for instance. Or the eccentricity of ‘gusset’.”
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Amazing Living Art: Pooktre Tree Shaping →
These remind me of the Burning Man.
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Flags of Forgotten Countries →
Greater Tokyo Area, Japan, has a flag for every city and ward
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Cookstr →
Recipe of the Day: Grilled Salmon with Fresh Blueberry Corn Salsa
“We’ve got an amazing collection of recipes from great chefs and cookbook authors. Find a recipe for a favorite dish, or discover something you’ve never made before. We’re just getting started.”
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Goodbye
A long-time favourite local (Toronto) radio and club DJ committed suicide on Monday. The how is not public knowledge, and it really doesn’t need to be. The why? That’s anyone’s guess. I could speculate, but won’t. It’s not my place. The why he’s taken with him, and is no longer important. I know there are folks who think that suicide is the ultimate...
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Bitch
After hearing one of my workmates, for the umpteenth time, claim her bitch status, I am compelled to point out for all concerned, that doing such a thing in no way kindles for me any vision of your personal female power. Claiming to be a bitch does not make you strong, it makes you a bitch, and an impatience-making one at that. I get the whole take-back-the-word concept, but I think this is one...
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Evian Ad →
That has to be the most fucked up thing I’ve seen in days, possibly ever. I’m old enough to remember when that song came out, too. I think I still have the 45! (SFW)
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It's all in the delivery
We deliver all manner of things at work - food being the largest percent of the delivery pie. We are no longer (legally) allowed to deliver alcohol or cigarettes (according to city bylaws), which seems to stun some folks. No matter how much you wheedle, we are not going to deliver cigarettes to you. I think what others might classify as the oddest delivery request on record, is the woman who...
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The blue and the green | Bad Astronomy | Discover... →
“You see embedded spirals, right, of green, pinkish-orange, and blue? Incredibly, the green and the blue spirals are the same color.”
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Soviet Russian Album Covers →
He looks like the Russian Rick Springfield. Yep, their album cover art is just as ghey as ours.
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10 Most Amazing Grass Sculptures →
Being an F1 fan, this naturally caught my eye
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What Supersonic Looks Like →
Vapour Cone The visual phenomenon, which sometimes but not always accompanies the breaking of the sound barrier, has also been seen with nuclear blasts and just after space shuttles launches, too. A vapor cone was photographed as the Apollo 11 moon-landing mission rocketed skyward in 1969.
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Merit Badges at Gallery Hanahou « Stabbed! →
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Fracas of Faith
As to whether the universe is evolved or designed intelligently, I have to go with the former. How we could stick the term ‘intelligent design’ to anything that is so awkward and fails as much as the human body, is beyond me. I know there are some who feel that the explanations of science take away the sense of wonder and magic that some non-evolutionary theories provide, but I find...
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“How “ironic” came to be defined as “coincidence” is...”
– from Words That Changed Their Meanings Now if only people would stop using it to mean coincidence, life would be a sweeter place.
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the bazaarium — Silhouette Masterpiece Theatre →
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Neill's blog: A-Z of Awesomeness →
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The Surreal Appeal of the Falkirk Wheel | Quazen →
Falkirk, Scotland
“On how a remarkable piece of engineering bridges the eight story gap between two waterways. The only rotating boat lift of this type in the world.”
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25 Imaginative Illustrations Inspired By Film →
Highlander The Deer Hunter
Two of my favourites from this fabulous selection.
